Hello there!
If you haven’t heard of student day before, it’s a half-day event on the Sunday before the start of DPP (October 6th, 2024) that is organized by students, for students!
This event was created because APS leadership recognized that the first few academic conferences can be daunting and overwhelming for many students. This event serves the dual purpose of preparing students for the science of DPP and creates a unique networking opportunity for all students to foster a welcoming community. To do this, Student Day features review and research talks, group activities, and networking where everything is organized and delivered by students!
Student Day is targeted towards students at all levels. From undergraduates for whom this is their first academic conference, to advanced graduate students sharing their research, to those wrapping up their dissertations, Student Day is a friendly and low-stakes environment.
Student Day has grown every year since its inception in 2019 to 215+ students in 2023. We would like to continue this growth and welcome as many students as possible to attend Student Day.
*** Undergraduate Students ***
You might be asking, “are undergraduate students welcome?”
Based on feedback from our post-event surveys and to foster a welcoming environment, we are limiting participation to those who have not received their terminal degrees (PhD or equivalent) before the last APS-DPP (November 2023) and those who are not actively mentoring/advising students that may potentially attend student day.
Student Day runs from 12:00-6:00 PM on Sunday October 6th, 2024. Registration is $30 paid with registration for APS-DPP and includes dinner and snacks. The tentative schedule is provided as a link on this site.
*** Society of Physics Students***
https://www.spsnational.org/awards/travel
A Final Note
Thank you for helping us reach out, grow the field, and make plasma physics a more welcoming community!
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Got a question? Feel free to reach out to one of the Student Day 2024 Organizers!
Blake Carter, University of California, San Diego (bmcarter@ucsd.edu)
Dionysi Damaskopoulos, University of Wisconsin, Madison (dionysi.damaskopoulos@wisc.edu)
Joshua ‘Quinn’ Morgan, Caltech (jqmorgan@caltech.edu)
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We would like to thank the panelists again for their time and insights:
| Midhat Farooq | Careers Senior Program Manager | American Physical Society |
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This year at APS-DPP, CONNECT will be hosting a Luncheon event on Monday, October 7th. This event is targeted at graduate students and undergraduate students, but post-doc and early-career scientists are encouraged to attend as well! Registration for the Luncheon must be done in advance, as detailed here: https://engage.aps.org/dpp/meetings/annual-meeting/registration-2024.
At the Luncheon, Dr. Midhat Farooq will be speaking on career opportunities for physics degree holders. Physics degree holders are highly employable in both the private and public sectors. However, students and early career scientists have uneven access to information on the diverse types of career paths available to them. This talk will provide data on where physics degree holders typically find employment, give examples of common job titles, and highlight career resources useful for exploring options and searching for and applying to jobs. The speaker will also provide information on utilizing the career help desk at the APS DPP Job Fair.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Midhat Farooq is the Careers Senior Program Manager at the American Physical Society. Within this role, she develops career and professional development programs and resources for students and early career physicists. Midhat also organizes programming for students at APS conferences, facilitates career workshops, and manages the APS Career Mentoring Fellows program, through which academic and industry-based physicists receive training on and have the opportunity to mentor the next generation of scientists. Midhat holds a PhD in physics from the University of Michigan, where her research focused on building an optical magnetometer for a particle physics experiment.